Mortality due to Chagas disease in Brazil from 1979 to 2009: trends and regional differences (Publications)
(proportional mortality: 0.62%). The mean crude and age-standardized mortality rates were 3.61 and 5.19 deaths/100,000 inhabitants/year, respectively. During the observation period, Chagas mortality declined
Risk of<em> vibrio</em> transmission linked to the consumption of crustaceans in coastal towns of Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
crustaceans, confirming the high probability of exposure of human population to Vibrio spp., and 7.5% reported symptoms of food poisoning after consumption of crustaceans. The absence of genes encoding
Prevalence of epilepsy in a rural district of central Lao PDR (Publications)
subjects. An overall prevalence of 7.7 cases of epilepsy per thousand inhabitants was calculated (95% CI 5.3-10.7). Generalized epilepsy (21 cases, 63.6%) was commoner than partial epilepsy (9 cases, 27.3%)
Inhaled glucocorticoids during pregnancy and offspring pediatric diseases: a national cohort study (Publications)
glucocorticoids for asthma treatment during pregnancy (n=1231; 79.9% budesonide, 17.6% fluticasone, 5.4% beclomethasone, and 0.9% other/unspecified glucocorticoids) and offspring diseases (ICD-10 diagnoses)
In vitro and in vivo activities of synthetic trioxolanes against major human schistosome species (Publications)
resulted in a maximum total worm burden reduction of 52.2%. High worm burden reductions (71.7 to 86.5%) were observed after administration of single 200-mg/kg doses of OZ78 and OZ288 to hamsters infected
Association of early-life exposure to household gas appliances and indoor nitrogen dioxide with cognition and attention behavior in preschoolers (Publications)
appliances was inversely associated with cognitive outcomes (beta coefficient for general cognition = -5.10, 95% confidence interval (CI): -9.92, -0.28; odds ratio for inattention symptoms = 3.59, 95% CI:
Preclinical profiling of the immunogenicity of a two-component subunit malaria vaccine candidate based on virosome technology (Publications)
technology for subunit vaccine development. An optimized virosomally delivered peptide representing 5 NPNA repeats of P. falciparum circumsporozoite protein is highly immunogenic in mice. Antibodies against
Effect of a single dry season anthelmintic treatment of N'Dama cattle on communal pastures in the Gambia (Publications)
101 females divided into two groups of 83 animals each. One group was treated with fenbendazole at 7.5 mg/kg body weight by mouth in November 1992; the other group remained as the untreated control. At monthly
Genetic pathways to glioblastoma: a population-based study (Publications)
(95%), whereas secondary glioblastomas that progressed from low-grade or anaplastic gliomas were rare (5%). Secondary glioblastomas were characterized by frequent LOH 10q (63%) and TP53 mutations (65%). Of
Acute phase proteins and white blood cell levels for prediction of infectious complications in status epilepticus (Publications)
Subgroup analysis was performed for additional PCT measurements in the first 48 hours of SE. RESULTS: 22.5% of 160 consecutive SE patients had infections during SE. Single levels of CRP and WBC had no association